Empty Grave
An Empty Grave is the spot you mark out for a burial. It costs nothing and needs no technology, but it only fits on a grave spot inside a graveyard area, such as the Grave Area you start with. You place it from the graveyard’s build desk, then dig it out with a shovel: 4 swings, each costing 1 energy and 0.2 insanity. Digging gives 2 red tech points and leaves an open pit, ready for a body.
From there the burial goes as described on Graveyard: carry a corpse to the pit and lay it in, then fill the grave with the shovel (3 more swings and 2 more red tech points), and dress it with a gravestone and a fence.
Notes
- Dig only when a body is ready. An open pit, and a grave with a body not yet filled in, each count −3 toward graveyard quality.
- Any shovel will do. Digging needs no mastery, so the Rusty Shovel from the graveyard chest is enough.
- A dug pit can still be taken down; a filled grave never can. A filled grave also keeps its graveyard area from being removed, so choose the spot with care.
- The grave spots of an area are fixed. A Grave Area I has 6, most other areas with graves have 4, and Walkway and Columbarium Areas have none.